About this project

$15,346

pledged of $10,000 goal

335

backers

Update: Many thanks to all of our supporters for helping us successfully reach our funding target! In addition, we have released the Clip Environmental Report, detailing the environmental impact of the Clip. Check it out in the Updates tab above!

www.littlebonsai.com – The
Clip is your dependable and capable daily companion sporting a number
of different uses. It was developed by LittleBonsai, a young start up
with a bold mission to change the way the world thinks about everyday
consumer products.

The
Clip has something for everyone and makes an excellent gift. By
pledging on Kickstarter you will not only receive one of the first
Clips, you will also help to establish our young company.

What will you Clip?

Our
goal for the Clip is simple: to craft a beautifully versatile product,
whose functionality can only be limited by a user's imagination. The
Clip can serve as a prominent bookmark, a simple money and credit card
clip, a sturdy bottle opener, a handy belt clip, a reliable food pack
sealer and an elegant headphone cable organizer—these are just some of
our favorite uses.

Two Clips can also be combined to form a practical
stand for smartphones, note cards, recipes, and other small documents. Clips
are sold in pairs to enable you to take advantage of this versatility.
We recommend keeping one close by—for example, on a keychain—and using
the other to explore the Clip’s whole range of uses.

See the Clip in Action

The Perfect Holiday Gift

By gifting the Clip you are not only
buying one of our first cool products, you are helping to establish a
young and passionate company with a bold mission. You will contribute
directly to a change in the way we think about everyday consumer
products.

If
we reach our funding target on Kickstarter quickly enough (and have the
added support of a healthy supply of cups of coffee), we will hopefully
be able to send out our orders before the holiday season. Should this
not be possible, we will send along an attractive email certificate that
will guarantee a specific shipment date to the receiver of the gift.

Environmental Responsibility

From the start, the Clip was designed with consideration for its environmental impact. Eco-design strategies including
design for durability, producing locally and designing for
recyclability supported the entire product design cycle from initial
conception to final detailed design decisions. The Clip Environmental
Report is now available and includes more information about our
efforts to reduce the product's life-cycle impact. Find out more about our approach to environmental responsibility here.

About LittleBonsai

LittleBonsai
is a young product design studio with a bold mission, founded by recent
college graduates Jake Felser and Ollie Haas. We are changing the way
the world thinks about everyday consumer products by promoting
craftsmanship and environmental responsibility in our designs.

The
idea of LittleBonsai was born in May 2011 in a quaint café in the
Boston area (we did not have a garage available to us at the time!).
With college graduation around the corner, we were discussing our
options and ideas for the future. We both felt passionately dissatisfied
with the current state of consumer products in the market and decided
there and then that there was an opportunity for us to work together to
address our concerns.

As
designers and engineers, we believe that it is high time to challenge
the status quo and to show the world that products can be designed
differently. We believe in crafting products that become lifelong
companions—products with emotional value that can be easily repaired and
refurbished. We believe that we have a responsibility to develop
products in the most environmentally responsible way possible, by
minimizing the environmental impact at each stage of the product's life
cycle and communicating these impacts to you in a candid and transparent
way.

What will the Kickstarter money be used for?

The
money we raise on Kickstarter will be used to fund the first production
round of the Clip. The Clips featured in our videos and images are
prototypes, which have been refined over the past months. In order to
prepare the Clip for high quality and consistent production we need to
produce several tools and prepare our small production line, which has a
significant upfront cost.